With the surge of interest in home cooking, baking, and BBQ that we’ve seen the past few months, we have gotten a lot of questions about what equipment is needed. These kits have everything you need to upgrade your kitchen or BBQ patio right now.

• You need a Thermapen Mk4 for verifying the doneness temperatures of everything you cook
• You need an alarm thermometer to track temperature changes during longer cooks
• DOT is our simplest alarm for the Home Kitchen and Wirecutter’s favorite alarm thermometer
• Smoke is a perfect BBQ alarm with two channels—one for your meat and one to track the air temps of your smoker—and is the America's Test Kitchen favorite remote probe thermometer
• Our Silicone Hotpads/Trivets are incredibly handy for grabbing hot things safely
• And a Hi-Temp Spatula for the kitchen or a Hi-Temp Basting Brush for the BBQ rounds out the essentials

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